[citation][nom]fayzaan[/nom]I am confident it will. Start menu was inefficient and even MS said according to their statistics it was used very little. Who likes to go Start>Programs>Accessories>Paint.exe etc. no one does that anymore!! if you use a program often, you put it on the taskbar or a shortcut on the desktop. Windows 8 gives you that in a awesome way.[/citation]
Actually, that is not the point. If that was all that was different, we could live with it. But the lack of commands are the problem. When an IT professional wants to get the IP address of a box, they don't open the control panel, go to networking, right-click for preferences, etc. They do Start->run->ipconfig /all (or /release or /renew, etc) or cmd and then ipconfig from there. And when they set up scripts to do a domain full of computers, they can't do a GUI-click. It has to be commands. Even the server versions of Windows 8 and Server 2012 don't have commands. I have friends who work for M$ in their server evaluation group and all I get from them are non-stop complaints of 'OMG, they took X out!' (another very commonly used command). 'How are we supposed to setup 100 clients without X without going to each and every one in turn?!?' And they keep reporting these issues and the biggest problem of all, they keep getting ignored! Then I dare ask; 'Why does M$ employ these testers at all when they don't listen to a word they say unless it is pure praise?'. I heard from one of them that once his job was threatened if he didn't talk 'nicely' about the new products. His reply was 'I am not here to be nice to the company, I am here to test the product and give you my results. Right now I do not have joy with it on a professional level'. I'm pretty sure, but not 100%, that his area of investigation was in the backup and networking side of server versions using multiple boxes.
M$ is turning everything into a click-festival. It's ridiculous. In Office 2000 for example, you could do any number of functions directly from the top of the screen via the toolbars available for various features. Now with 2007 I think it started, you have to click over to the right tab, down to the right function, then what you wanted. First you have to know where all that crap is. We back-loaded to older office versions at work and/or even switched to other options due to productivity issues with the newer versions.
The problem we have with windows 8 is they are taking away even more productivity from various different work groups from engineers to IT professionals, etc. For my gaming rig at home, it's not horrible. But for anything professional, I do not see it getting adopted at all. Now this was all rather early in their testing cycle and I haven't talked to any of those guys in quite a while to be honest. Perhaps they have fixed a lot of those problems. But the way they were talking (over a 5-month period last time we got together), nothing was changing... If you really wanna know, I can shoot an email to them and see what they say.
And it doesn't matter what the end-user likes to be honest. The corporations are where M$ makes their bottom line. I do not see any of them adopting this anytime soon. They are also the slowest to move. Heck, a TON of companies are still using Windows XP and only now validating Windows 7 for the in-house software needs. And in some cases, their software won't work on Windows 7. Sounds odd but that is the field that I myself work in. And sometimes, it just simply doesn't work and re-writing or compiling a tool made possibly a decade ago just isn't always in the cards. And these are relatively simple transitions from XP to 7. But 7 (or gosh, XP) to 8... That's a massive change 'behind the sceens'.
I could give a crap about Metro. I don't like it myself but it's not the factor that is going to destroy Windows 8 itself. And the biggest problem is MS's own testers were screaming at them about these problems from the start and simply told to shut up. Yet again, another example of a company not paying attention to the people they are paying to do the job they were hired for... Unfortunately, all too common today.
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